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Desider Issue 94 April 2016 April 2016 Issue 94 desthe magazine for defence equipment and support Sea King: Farewell to an Icon A4 optDesider15.03.pdf 1 15/03/2016 12:03 Optima Group: A more rounded offering. Optima Group has grown. Having established a reputation as a world leader in designing and delivering capabilities to deal with contemporary threats, we recognised the need to expand our offering. Our core specialisation is based around locating improvised explosive devices (Search), neutralising and mitigating the danger they pose (C-IED) and the disposal of other explosive ordnance (EOD). We have now grown, both organically and strategically through the acquisition of other market leaders, including Electronic Warfare Solutions (EWS) and Mason Change Communications (MCC). Optima Group represents a new kind of organisation. Not a defence contractor or security firm, but a comprehensive threat management group that deploys unparalleled expertise dynamically to save lives and foster political stability and social resilience. We are Optima Group. +44(0)1793 207979 | [email protected] | optimagroup.co Every threat is individual. So is our response. cover image FOREWORD By Tony Douglas, CEO © Crown Copyright | Dan Rosenbaum ust three months ago I stood in front of an already dedicated workforce and asked them to ‘get better at desider getting better’. I can see this mantra has been taken on Jboard. www.gov.uk/government/publications/desider-2015 It’s been another busy month with DE&S project teams continuing to focus on delivering the best possible equipment to the Armed Forces. Editor: We have announced a further £472 million for the Royal Tom Morris - 9352 37888 or 0117 9137888 Navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme which will [email protected] replace the Type 23 frigate as the workhorse of the fleet. Reporters: Not only does this move us ever closer to delivering the Laura Martin Plaza, Hazel Stanley, Tom Knight and 21st Century warship, it underlines DE&S’ commitment to Hannah Carolin engage the wider supply chain, with suppliers from across the Photography and Design: UK set to benefit. Andrew Linnett, David Tucker, Ed Low, Mark Hawke I was proud to see the result of a disused forklift truck and Paul Griffin factory in Merthyr Tydfil being transformed into a specialist engineering hub for Ajax - all thanks to a £390 million contract Distribution Manager: awarded by DE&S to General Dynamics UK. Dick Naughton - 9352 34342 or 0117 9134342 This wonderful achievement is not only another significant DES SEC-CorpOC-BusMgr1a mod.uk @ step towards delivering the British Army’s next generation of armoured vehicles but creates 250 new, highly skilled jobs. Advertising: As we look forward to welcoming Ajax in the coming Richard Stillman – Ten Alps Media, 1 New Oxford years we say goodbye to Sea King which has spent 47 years Street, High Holborn, London SC1A 1NU delivering Royal Navy and RAF operations. Tel: +44 (0)20 7657 1837 DE&S are proud to have supported the iconic aircraft Fax: +44 (0)20 7379 7155 through the Sea King Project Team and I am pleased that [email protected] many past and present employees were able to attend a ceremony in Yeovil to bid it farewell. Transformation continues at pace as DE&S looks to become Printing: an organisation that sets the benchmark for acquisition. This month Tim Sheldon – appointed to new Corporate Head of Project Controls – makes some wonderful analogies explaining how his function will help DE&S achieve this. desider is distributed free to DE&S employees and the We must also bid a very fond farewell to Sir Simon Bollom equipment capability organisations. Copies may be who retires from DE&S next month. Simon spent more than 35 sent to readers outside MOD, including in the defence years in the RAF and more than a decade with DE&S, holding industries and is published on the world wide web via the position of Chief of Materiel (Air), since October 2012. GOV.UK. While the editor takes care to ensure all material During that time he achieved an extraordinary amount produced is accurate, no liability can be accepted for including bringing Voyager and A400M into service and taking errors or omissions. Views expressed in desider, and the first delivery of F35s. products and services advertised, are not necessarily endorsed by DE&S or the MOD. All editorial submissions I think I can speak for everybody when I offer sincere thanks must be cleared by the relevant MOD authorities with for all his hard work and wish him all the best for the future. content for advertorials to be cleared by the relevant MOD On a final note please take a couple of minutes to complete project team before publication. the Desider survey you will find in the magazine and online this month. Your opinions can help make Desider even better. © Crown Copyright This magazine is produced on Cocoon Silk 90gsm which contains 50 per cent recycled and de-inked pulp from post consumer waste and Forest Stewardship Council certified material from well-managed forests. desider April 2016 3 HAVE YOUR SAY: FILL IN THE DESIDER READERSHIP SURVEY IN THIS ISSUE OR ONLINE www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Desider SENIOR LEADER’S COMMENT 06 Adrian Baguley, Director Air Support, on the motivation of delivering to the Armed Forces, the impact of SDSR 2015, and why the unexpected always happens on a Friday NEWS 08 Flying high: £372 million committed for continued in-service support of world- class Hawk fast jet 10 Chocks away: CoM Air Sir Simon Bollom prepares for retirement. He talks career highlights and Caribbean holidays 12 Red Letter Day: Astute Class submarine HMS Artful officially becomes a commissioned warship 10 14 Ajax update: Disused forklift truck factory in Wales transformed into specialist engineering hub 16 Type 26: A further £472 million is committed to the Royal Navy’s Global Combat Ship programme 20 Red tape eradicator: New policy unveiled for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 27 First compartments of HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier handed over to her crew ahead of schedule 29 Successor boost: A further £642 million of investment for the cutting edge submarine programme is announced FEATURES 17 Astute – Desider talks to the team behind one of DE&S’s most complex projects 24 Sea King – The majority of the Sea King fleet went out of service at the end of March. DE&S says goodbye to 14 the iconic aircraft 4 desider April 2016 HAVE YOUR SAY: FILL IN THE DESIDER READERSHIP SURVEY IN THIS ISSUE OR ONLINE www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Desider REGULARS 30 First person - Tim Sheldon, Corporate Head of Project Controls, discusses the key aspects of this new function and how football can help explain the advantages of Transformation 32 Jobs - Desider’s latest recruitment pages 36 60 Second spotlight – DE&S’ Lana Tavara talks about her love of Tudor History, volunteering for the national 2016 Trust, and serving in the Falklands 37 – DE&S People Fitness fanatic: DE&S APRIL logistics officer Jayne Mitchell pushed her body to breaking limit taking on the ultimate physical challenge 39 DE&S People – Abbey Wood celebrates International Women’s Day 17 24 Inside desider April 2016 5 SENIOR LEADER COMMENT Adrian Baguley, Director Air Support, talks to Desider about recent achievements in the operating centre, the impact of SDSR 2015, and his pride in what he and his team have achieved Picture: Andrew Linnett As an organisation we have a very “strong sense of common purpose: to deliver capability to our Armed Forces for the national security of our country Adrian Baguley ” ince returning to DE&S in November Mobility fleets, Airborne intelligence and the US Government on the programme are 2005 I’ve held a number of senior surveillance fleets and a huge spectrum of progressing well and we are looking at the Spositions, including four proud aircraft support equipment ranging from delivery of the first aircraft. years as Director Helicopters and most aircrew clothing and survival aids to synthetic We are also working towards main gate recently Director Air Support. Air Support training simulators. Every day brings different, for our Mode 5 IFF programme that will encompasses some 900 people and has an and often unexpected, challenges and it is equip over 400 platforms across air, sea and annual spend of around £1.5 billion - which this range of issues that makes the job so land with the new radio transponders that most people forget is equivalent to the fascinating and certainly keeps us busy - tell other platforms that you are a friendly turnover of a FTSE 100 company. Fridays always seem to be the day when the aircraft - essential to enable major collation As an organisation we have a very unexpected happens! operations. strong sense of common purpose: to A great achievement for us in September Smaller, but equally important current deliver capability to our Armed Forces for last year was the delivery of our seventh projects, include new flying clothing and life the national security of our country. It is A400M aircraft, achieving the UK in-service preservers for aircrew and new personal this sense of purpose that inspires us all date for the multi-national programme. locator beacons to enable search and rescue to succeed in what we do and certainly Since then our fleet has been on extended assets to locate aircrew in the event of an motivates me to ensure we meet our world-wide tasks, and the next challenge is accident. promises. delivering a further 15 aircraft and releasing I have immense pride for what we do. Our For me, the combination of financial, the full capabilities of this amazing new air people really want to achieve, and do achieve business, organisational, leadership and transport aircraft.
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